SDCL § 46A-9-50: Cooperation with United States in acquisition and disposition of property.

The water user district may purchase and acquire lands, water rights, rights-of-way, and real and personal properties of every nature in cooperation with the United States under such conditions as the board deems advisable. The district may convey such rights and property under conditions, terms, and restrictions approved by the board of directors and the federal government or any of its agencies. The district may pay the purchase price and any construction costs or other necessary expenses and costs in connection with any works contemplated by this chapter either from its own funds or cooperatively with the federal government.

Source: SL 1939, ch 291, § 12; SDC Supp 1960, § 61.1312; SDCL § 46-16-48; SL 2011, ch 165, § 484.